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Yes, please up the OP

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No, leave it as it is now

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Total Members Voted: 113

[Erick Doe]

Currently working on the Hedgehog. An asymmetrical missile ship.



Similar to the Annihilator. Though the Hedgehog will get fast missile racks, allowing it to rapidly torpedo the enemy using its broadside.

[Thule]

Wow...beautiful. I really really like it. The asymmetric look is perfect, even the name.
Nice use of the Onslaught sprite there.

[Erick Doe]

Thanks Thule. The name should be given justice even more once you see the missiles sprouting out from its starboard broadside.

I'm not sure if I want to give it medium missiles or small missiles yet, though. Other than that it will get 3 small turrets, 1 medium turret and 1 built-in forward facing medium weapon. The ship will be fast, hard to maneuver and rather flimsy. High hull rating but poor armour. Something of a hit-and-run ship.

[HELMUT]

I'm not sure if I want to give it medium missiles or small missiles yet, though.

Five pilums missile boat here we go!

[duel2009]

great pack!

[phyrex]

making it have medium missiles would seem kinda extreme tho.
like, a quintuple volley of pillums ? geez

[Erick Doe]

Yes, I'd better stick to small.

[phyrex]

Reaper x5 suicide passby attack :p

Edit : omg, all the crazy combinations XD

[conorano]

making the missile slots small would kinda make the fast missile racks system usseless though (becouse every small weapon already fires really fast) maybe some kind of ammo regenerating system if possible?

[zakastra]

Why stick to a single size? Why not have 3 small two medium, or two small two medium one large, or 4 small one large?

[HELMUT]

Why stick to a single size? Why not have 3 small two medium, or two small two medium one large, or 4 small one large?

I agree. Plus the ship's side seems a bit too flat. With some different hardpoints size it would look better i think.

[Silver Silence]

Could also make use of built in weapons and give the Hedgehog a specific set of weapons to barrage it's enemies with. That way, you can control whether it fires 15 custom pilum clones or 25 custom annihilator rockets instead.

[Erick Doe]

I gave the hedgehog:

2x Small Ballistic turret
1x Small Universal turret
1x Medium Universal hardpoint
1x Medium Ballistic turret
1x Built-in mining laser hardpoint

2x Medium Missile hardpoint
3x Small Missile hardpoint

Fast Missile Racks

No shields

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It easily outlasts a Buffalo Mk2 and a Mule in the hands of the AI. It is roughly on par with a Hammerhead in the hands of the AI. In the hands of the player this ship can do a lot more. It has a crazy fast missile spam. To give it a significant weakness I decided to strip its shields. Hull-wise it is similar to the Annihilator.

Almost ready to upload the ship. 

[Erick Doe]

The Hedgehog is up for download. Also updated the Moth, Annihilator, Lance and Talus.

Hedgehog Relative starting difficulty: Very Easy (low-tech missile destroyer)



Now updating the Complete Pack to include the Hedgehog and new missions. Possibly introducing a new campaign map.

[Grug]

I want to like the lance, but I just can't. The sheer length of it, the trashy shields and that goddamn useless hypervelocity cannon just ruin it for me. Maybe you could consider making a carrier-convert out of a falcon? Or hell, just seeing any sort of core epoch midline carrier with two runways and a vanilla feel would be cool.